Samsung Heavy Industries Accelerates Transformation into a Smart Shipyard

Development of 'Integrated Monitoring System for Transmission Lines'
Connecting EPC Information with DT Technology

Reference image for SYARD. Image courtesy of Samsung Heavy Industries

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] Samsung Heavy Industries is accelerating its transition to a 'smart shipyard' utilizing digital transformation (DT) technology to advance manufacturing innovation.

On the 2nd, Samsung Heavy Industries announced that it has developed and is officially applying the industry's first data-based 'Enterprise Integrated Monitoring System (SYARD)' that allows all information generated throughout the entire shipbuilding process?from estimation to product delivery?to be viewed and controlled at a glance.

SYARD is characterized by utilizing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, which were previously managed separately, through Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. It is a management system equipped with a Business Intelligence platform that visualizes connected and analyzed big data to provide real-time information.

With the application of SYARD, optimal data-driven decision-making is possible, enabling efficient management of management resources such as manpower, materials, and energy, shortening lead times, and allowing for the early identification and elimination of risk factors.

Meanwhile, Samsung Heavy Industries is leveraging DT technology amid rapidly changing management environments such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and labor shortages. Since 2019, it has been promoting smartification across all areas including production, design, and operations to transform the labor-intensive shipbuilding industry into a platform-based, high-efficiency, technology-intensive industry.

Up to last year, it developed and applied platforms such as a metaverse-based remote quality inspection platform, an interactive design chatbot, and a production paperless system utilizing 3D modeling and digital twin technology.

Through these efforts, Samsung Heavy Industries plans to achieve a '10% total cost improvement' this year and expand the accumulated smart technologies to classification societies, partners, and customers by 2025, building a 'smart ecosystem' across the entire supply chain.

Lee Joong-nam, Team Leader of the Smart SHI Secretariat at Samsung Heavy Industries, stated, "With the establishment of SYARD, we have laid the foundation to transition to a platform business utilizing big data in the shipbuilding sector." He added, "We will continue to strive to complete the smart shipyard by leveraging differentiated DT technologies."